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Table No. 9. NUMBER and VALUE of POSTAGE STAMPS Printed during the Years 1866, 1867, 1868, 1869, and 1870.

Table No. 10. RETURN of INTERPROVINCIAL MAIL STEAM SUBSIDIES, June, 1871.

Table No. 11. TABLE showing the Number of OFFICERS employed in the respective POST OFFICE ESTABLISHMENTS in the COLONY.

1861 1867. 1861 186! 1870. Kates. Number. Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. £ £ £ £ £ At One Shilling * # 108,000 5,400 119,280 5,904 480 21 At Sixpence 242,880 6,072 714,240 17,856 605,040 15,126 165,360 4,134 742,320 18,558 At Fourpence ... * . * * * # At Threepence... • 1,059,120 13,239 412,800 5,160 9,360 117 480,000 6,000 At Twopence ... 1,989,840 16,582 1,600,080 13,334 1,668,000 13,900 1,212,960 10,108 2,556,000 21,300 At One Penny... 714,000 2,975 1,315,920 5,483 1,869,600 7,790 1,616,160 6,734 2,070,000 8,625 Totals 49,912 4,663,440 47,376 3,123,120 2,946,720 25,629 4,689,360 27,057 5,848,800 54,507 * A Ian ;e number of these Postal ;e Stam is were in stock at the close of the irevious rear.

Ctottbacts. Expense per Mile. Seetices. Annual Subsidy. How Often. Mileage every Mmit'h. Commence. Terminate. Manakau and Pieton ... £ 4,550 June 22 June 24 Two months' notice. Once every four weeks. 720 £ s. d. 0 9 8^ Nelson and Hokitika ... 650 470 0 2 1£

IS' '0. Ibl 111. Post Offices. | I i s M 1 i § i o I E O 1 I — I o I 3 i g ■ ■ i I to c i m ■n S I H 5 I Auckland Thames New Plymouth Napier Wellington Wanganui Nelson Westport Charleston Blenheim Picton Christchurch Lyttelton Timaru Kaiapoi Dunedin Port Chalmers Oaniaru Invercargill Hokitika Greymouth Chatham Islands ... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 2 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 9 1 1 4 2 2 2 4 1 1 1 4 1 1 i 1 i 1 10 6 2 3 8 2 5 2 1 2 1 15 3 3 2 17 1 ; 2 5 5 3 1 108 l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l i l l l l 10 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 8 1 1 4 2 '> 4 1 i i i "i 1 17 4 2 2 8 2 4 2 1 O 1 14 3 2 2 17 1 2 5 5 3 1 i'6 "i i io i 4 i 1 i 2 2 1 1 1 1 "i l 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Totals 22 52 24 6 4 22 21 5 4 100